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Formative Assessment
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Measures student learning outcomes at the end of a lesson or project but does not result in a final, numeric grade. The results help identify levels of student achievement, assign in-progress grades, and provide feedback with the intention of helping students grow.

Summative Assessment

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Apply this first in order to identify the learning goals that are important for students to accomplish.

Backwards Design

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Busy teachers can use this model to assign numeric grades using objectives or "I can" target statements unpacked from standards.

Simplified Numeric Scoring

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This refers to the ability of an assessment to measure or appraise what it intends to.

Validity

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An informal assessment that collects data during a lesson to identify what students understand and what they have yet to understand.

Formative Assessment

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Measure how well the student achieved their learning target based on their finished artwork, which are usually given in the form of numeric grades.

Performance assessments

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Assessing student behaviors formatively and checking for understanding without assigning grades. It transpires through one-on-one, small group, and whole-class interactions. 

Informal Assessment

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A scoring device in table format that contains measurable objectives or daily learning targets written in student-friendly language with "I can" statements.

A Rubric

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An assessment's ability to produce similar results, given comparable circumstances and students' unchanged baseline knowledge

Reliability

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Performance-based assessments with real-life decisions and behaviors that directly relate to what a professional does in their career.

Authentic Assessments

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Measured by numeric scores.

Quantitative Assessments

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This is a process of collecting data during a learning activity to identify what students understand and have yet to comprehend.

Formative Assessment

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This lists learning outcomes next to symbols that represent the level of performance students can achieve. Teachers and students mark the appropriate symbol to categorize the degree of performance on a particular target.

A Rating Scale

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The part of a rubric that clearly describes the quality of a student’s performance within a learning target (or criterion).

Descriptive Indicator of Performance

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Measure student expressive outcomes and focus on the whole student.

Qualitative Assessments

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Assessing students by using numeric scores and grades, usually at the end of a project, unit, or course.

Formal Assessment

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The final assessment that measures learning targets at the completion of one or more.

Summative Assessment

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This measures specific actions and observable behaviors students should be able to achieve on a task without rating the quality of the performance indicator like a rating scale does. Teachers may use this when grades are not required, but specified student actions need to be documented.

A Checklist

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An approach to art curriculum design that places student choice at the center of the classroom.

Choice-Based Art Curriculum

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Assessing student behaviors and understanding formatively without assigning grades.

Informal Assessment

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Assessments made by students that measure how well they, a peer, or the entire class met their learning targets.

Summative Self/Peer/Group Assessment

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Summative assessment results are useful in identifying the following...

Levels of student achievement, assigning diagnostic grades, and providing feedback with the intention of helping students grow.

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For a choice-based curriculum, this assessment instruments contains a collection of student selected artifacts created over an extended time.

Portfolio
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Universal student learning targets for the 2nd, 5th, 8th, and high school grade levels that work together with the state and national art standards.

Model Cornerstone Assessments (MCAs)

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Assessments made by students that measure progress relating to learning targets for themselves, a peer, or the entire class.

Formative Self/Peer/Group Assessment

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